Glen Campbell may have debuted in the early '60s as a dazzling session guitarist and singer—working for the likes of Elvis and Sinatra, and sometimes even taking Brian Wilson's place onstage in the Beach Boys—but he wound up rivaling any of his former clients as a hitmaker once he finally stepped behind the mic as a solo artist. Deploying his velvety croon as the urbane muse for songwriter Jimmy Webb, the Arkansas-born Campbell polished his early crossover smashes so exquisitely that Nashville's country purists barely accepted them. His string-laden epics, like 'Rhinestone Cowboy' and 'Wichita Lineman,' would steer the genre toward the pop dominance it still enjoys. But they were also haunting character studies that would eventually shape sounds as distinct and distant from Music Row as the thunderous power ballads of Guns N' Roses and the hushed alt-rock mystery of R.E.M. As a late-career performer, Campbell acknowledged his own encroaching mortality with astounding gravity and grace, searching for salvation in a tender hymn by punk progenitors The Velvet Underground and singing with the heartbreaking vulnerability of a man staring down life's finale.

Dear Mac Users and Mac Enthusiasts, I am currently downloading Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. I'm am cloning my hard drive right now so I can install Linux on my Mac. I love Mac OS X don't get me wrong, but lately I've found out that it's simplicity has greatly affected my ability to troubleshoot computer problems in general. With OS X things have been too easy; no advanced configuration whatsoever. Not even with Apache to say the least. I need to be challenged with an OS and not dumbed down by it's simplistic use and advanced auto-configuration that leaves me simplified for simplicity sake.

Now this is not a final goodbye, I'm just switching to Ubuntu to become challenged with configuration, advanced configuration, networking config, etc. Apple you have made it too easy on me and I thank you for that, but since I'm in the real world dealing with real computer problems it's time to step up and take computing to the next level and advance my skills in Linux and rekindle Windows skills. Yes I will be buying a PC in the next 6 months. Thank you mac users, this has been an experience I will never forgot and will tell people how easy I've had it with computers. Thank you everyone and thank you all. Signed, SlooksterPSV proud owner of an iBook G4 (the last of the G4's for Macs). My advice to the OP would be to invest in some truly demanding software for OSX and dedicate some time to mastering it.

Flash / Actionscript is a good example of a very useful technology that will leave even the most technically sophisticated users with their hands full. Animation, modeling and video compositing are other examples of rewarding apps to learn and master. OS/Hardware-centric users are much like a 'hunter' that spends most of his time selecting/tweaking/testing his rifle/ammunition/gear, but really has only an incidental interest in actually harvesting a deer. Ie: the computer itself becomes the most important aspect of computing for some people. I have a friend who exemplifies this attitude perfectly. He uses some variant of Linux on a generic Wintel box.

Adios Mcdonalds

I sit and get work done, and he sits and downloads new drivers that don't work and then prints out and reads pages of forum threads to figure out why and tries another video card because maybe its drivers are better supported and struggles with other issues that ultimately result in a decision to try a different flavour of Linux so he spends the rest of the weekend reinstalling. Dear Mac Users and Mac Enthusiasts, I am currently downloading Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. I'm am cloning my hard drive right now so I can install Linux on my Mac. I love Mac OS X don't get me wrong, but lately I've found out that it's simplicity has greatly affected my ability to troubleshoot computer problems in general. With OS X things have been too easy; no advanced configuration whatsoever. Not even with Apache to say the least.

I need to be challenged with an OS and not dumbed down by it's simplistic use and advanced auto-configuration that leaves me simplified for simplicity sake. Now this is not a final goodbye, I'm just switching to Ubuntu to become challenged with configuration, advanced configuration, networking config, etc. Apple you have made it too easy on me and I thank you for that, but since I'm in the real world dealing with real computer problems it's time to step up and take computing to the next level and advance my skills in Linux and rekindle Windows skills. Yes I will be buying a PC in the next 6 months. Thank you mac users, this has been an experience I will never forgot and will tell people how easy I've had it with computers. Thank you everyone and thank you all.

Adios Mascherano

Signed, SlooksterPSV proud owner of an iBook G4 (the last of the G4's for Macs).